D'Argembeau Arnaud, Van der Linden Martial, d'Acremont Mathieu, Mayers Isabelle
Cognitive Psychopathology Unit, University of Liège, Belgium.
Memory. 2006 Jul;14(5):637-47. doi: 10.1080/09658210600747183.
Previous studies failed to show clear differences between people with social phobia and non-anxious individuals regarding the specificity and affective intensity of their autobiographical memories for social events. However, these studies did not assess the subjective experience associated with remembering. In this study, people with social phobia and non-anxious control participants recalled social and non-social events, and rated the phenomenal characteristics of their memories. The memories of people with social phobia for social events contained fewer sensorial details but more self-referential information than controls' memories. In addition, people with social phobia remembered social situations from an observer perspective, viewing themselves as if from outside, to a greater extent than controls. By contrast, the two groups did not differ concerning their memories for non-social events. These findings are discussed in relation to cognitive models of social phobia.
以往的研究未能表明社交恐惧症患者与非焦虑个体在社交事件自传体记忆的特异性和情感强度方面存在明显差异。然而，这些研究并未评估与记忆相关的主观体验。在本研究中，社交恐惧症患者和非焦虑对照参与者回忆社交和非社交事件，并对他们记忆的现象学特征进行评分。与对照组的记忆相比，社交恐惧症患者对社交事件的记忆包含的感官细节较少，但自我参照信息较多。此外，社交恐惧症患者比对照组更倾向于从观察者的角度回忆社交情境，仿佛从外部观察自己。相比之下，两组在非社交事件的记忆方面没有差异。本文结合社交恐惧症的认知模型对这些发现进行了讨论。
